Duration 1 hour and 15 minutes
Premiered at the Jerez Flamenco Festival in 2013
Villamarta Theatre
As a necessary extension of the inhabited woman, is born Bitter Orange.
Nature continues to inspire a dance full of eternal cycles and circular rhythms. Life and death, falls and rebirths, days and nights.
The tree woman
Leaves, fruits, flowers, appearances, flavors, peels, aromas, roots and wings.
Bitter Orange is a piece based on the idea of paradox as a contradiction, at least apparent, between two things or ideas.
How can something that at first glance may appear sweet, due to its shape, colour and aroma, be actually bitter? Do we use paradoxical approaches to go beyond simple reality? Are paradoxes then the bridges that connect the visible with the invisible, the conscious with the unconscious?
We probably won't be able to answer these questions definitively, but guided by our intuition we will take a journey into them using female identity as a creative tool, led by Leonor Leal, in dance, and Rocío Márquez, in singing.
The aesthetic development of the scene is a place in the process of transformation, with modernist reminiscences, which the passage of time has been transforming into another organicity that does not come from the design of its times of splendor, but from nature that has burst in to design a new place; half civilized like a dance hall and half natural like a meadow that is transformed into a forest.
Bitter Orange It is Andalusia, its streets and its history, its people. Flamenco as an everyday, local expression. The orange trees, enclosing the essence of a people, of a feeling and of an art that unites us all. Bitter Orange It is also the fruit and flower of the tree, it is orange blossom.
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Utrera – Seville.
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